{"id":24650,"date":"2009-12-01T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/pina-downplays-drugs\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:43:56","slug":"pina-downplays-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/01\/pina-downplays-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pina downplays drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The battle of public perception is usually the toughest to win, yet Cesar Pina Toribio is doing his best to save face in response to the finding that 52.6% of Dominicans believe that drug trafficking has penetrated the DR because of complicity between drug dealers and the authorities, and that 80.4% of those polled believe that drug trafficking is on the rise. These results are from the Gallup-Hoy public opinion poll published yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> Pina, the Presidency Press Minister, says that while the public perception of drugs is exaggerated, the authorities need to turn their attention to the fact that there is a widespread perception of complicity between the authorities and drug traffickers. He urged the authorities to redouble their efforts in the fight against drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of public perception is usually the toughest to win, yet Cesar Pina Toribio is doing his best to save face in response to the finding that 52.6% of Dominicans believe that drug trafficking has penetrated the DR because of complicity between drug dealers and the authorities, and that 80.4% of those polled believe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/01\/pina-downplays-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}